Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space

Acknowledgments

{341} Acknowledgments It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many sources from which I have received support for this book. Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the University of California (in the form of a President’s Fellowship for Research in the Humanities) allowed me to pursue my research full time in the early stages of this project. My residential fellowship at the Newberry Library during 2007–8 provided me not only with crucial time to write but also with intellectual community and friendship. My warm thanks to Jim Grossman forcreating an unparalleled scholarlyenvironment at the Newberry. Thanks as well to Martha Briggs, Diane Dillon, Dick Brown, and Megan Thomas—and especially to Justine Murison and Denver Brunsman, astute readers and great friends. Fellowships from the Schlesinger Library, the Huntington Library, Smith College, the Newberry Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society also provided support for travel and research. At the Schlesinger Library, Ellen M. Shea located a number of extraordinary resources for me that I would not have found on my own. I am also grateful to the helpful staff of the New York Public Library, where I more or less lived in the microfilm room. I am grateful for invitations to give talks at Princeton University; the University of California at Los Angeles; Boston College; the University of California, Irvine; and Washington State University, Pullman. My thanks to Christine Stansell, David Quigley, Joan Waugh, Heidi Tinsman, Uli Strasser, Carolyn Boyd, and Jenny Thigpen for making these talks such intellectually rewarding occasions. I am also indebted to Gina MorantzSanchez , Rachel Klein, Christopher Wilson, Gayle Gullett, and Vicki Ruiz for their astute comments. I am especially grateful to Jon Wiener for both his expert editorial eye and his friendship. It has been a great pleasure throughout this project to work with graduate students, a source of inspiration in and out of the classroom. I benefited from expert research assistance provided by several students, including Tracy Sachtjen, Emily Sundstrom, Bethany Sweeney, and AdamThomas. Also important to this project were ongoing conversations with other students, including Daniel Rood, Matt Mooney, Bill Landis, and Beth Anderson. Special thanks as well to researcher Kate Nicholson. I am delighted to be publishing my third book with the University of North Carolina Press, and count myself lucky to be working with the Press’s director, Kate Torrey, 342} acknowledgments and managing editor, Ron Maner. My deep thanks for their expert editorial advice and guidance. A shout-out, too, to UNC Press staff members Mary Blaine, Dino Battista, and Rachel Surles for their help, as well as to copyeditor Stevie Champion. I especially appreciate the support of friends and family. Ellen Burt, Joan Ariel, Ellen Broidy, Jane Elkoff, Liz Ezra, Holly Poindexter, Nancy Johnson, Bob Moeller, Lynn Mally,Ted Wright, and Nina Macdonald have lived with this project as long as I have— I am grateful for their encouragement and interest along the way. My family, too, has been immensely supportive. My sister, Mimi Fahs, has a rare gift for being positive, and I deeply appreciate her consistent enthusiasm and interest. My thanks to her, Elizabeth Thompson, and CraigThompson for their generous hospitality in NewYork. I am grateful as well to my son-in-law, Chris Douthitt, for his Texas-style hospitality. And as for Trixie: the world would be a dull place without her. No acknowledgment can quite capture how much the support of Mimi Chubb and Charlie Chubb has meant at every stage of this book. Not only have they been my go-to readers and editors for every single draft, but they have offered the sustaining virtues of wisdom, good advice, and constant encouragement. Plus they are fun to be with. What more can I say? Simply that I have dedicated this book to them, with my deep gratitude. ...